2000 Commencement

It's not just my imagination. Drexel's Commencements are ALWAYS held on the hottest, muggiest day of the year. Just the time to be marching around West Philadelphia in a floor-length insulated black gown. Nevertheless, your intrepid photographer dutifully picked up his Apple QuickTake 150 digital camera on June 10, 2000 and recorded these images. I've had this camera since some of these people were freshmen. In this day and age, that's tantamount to the camera Fred Flinstone used - the one that had the little bird inside with a hammer and chisel. Oh, well - enjoy.

• CS seniors John Kauffmann, Scott McLaughlin and friends.
• Math senior and athlete Kelly Brophy.
• This is a piece of click art that came with the camera.
• CS graduate students Eric Jeronimus, Roy Lee and David Lerch: I think these guys have been at Drexel longer than I have!!!
• Math seniors Allyson Nemeroff, Holly Tarczewski and friend.
• Award winning CS senior Anthony Sciamanna.
• Biology major Kate Rogalla - one of the top students from my "Computing for Bioscience" classes in 1996.
• MS student Tim Souder and friend math major Jeff Shergalis. Tim shows the MCS Student's Guide to Dressing for Success.
• Tim and Jeff have more friends (clockwise: Rahul Baid, Bob Arnold, Ron Haberman) than they can shake a stick at. Which might not be a bad idea.
• CS seniors Scott McLaughlin and Brad Sherman try on their caps.
• MCS Professors Spiros Mancoridis and Chris Rorres. Digital enhancements revealed the image of a light shining above Chris' head; indicating an idea. Notice the geometric shape. He later confessed he was thinking about the food at the reception.

  TA Corner:

• CS senior Elena Glozman, who assisted with Intro to Computer Science courses for three years.
• OK - by now, Scott has lost the hat, loosened the tie, and found himself in the company of Julia Romero-Bruno, a winner of this year's Albert J. Herr Scholarship for excellence in teaching who also earned dual BS and MS degrees in computer science. They have been highly valued TA's and will be sorely missed. I intend to fax homeworks to them for grading.
• Mathematics and Computer Science dual major; working for his teaching certificate; weightlifter, newspaper columnist, Olestra advocate and Internet entrepreneur - it can only be Ross Snyder, another TA extraordinaire. No, he didn't graduate today - SOMEBODY had to be in the audience! He's seen here with his teaching assistant compatriots, Julia and Scott (very possibly the only person to have his picture taken more often today than President Papadakis). I don't get it - when I was in college, the only guys who had hair that short were those in ROTC or prison work-release programs.
• He wasn't around for shooting (photos) but Anatoly Khusid also received dual BS and MS degrees in computer science.

Here's looking at you...

Congratulations, graduates!